[Asterisk-Users] res_motv: Request for Comment

[Andy Powell]

I'd like to give this one 10 thumbs down. IMHO a bad idea, a nasty little bad idea.. evil, spawn of Satan. If this were implemented the first job of a new update would be to rip it out and flush it down the nearest toilet. 

I can only wait until we see M$ like activation implemented... oh the joy...

It would be much better just to have the information present on either the Digium site or some other location. I see little point in wasting your valuable time doing something like this when there are so many outstanding issues and feature requests that could offer more.


Andy


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On 06/04/2004 at 22:31 Mark Spencer wrote:

>I've been considering the nature of Asterisk, its security, the bug
>tracker, and more...  And i've come up with an interesting idea: A
>"message of the version".  The idea is that Asterisk has a compile time
>32-bit unsigned int version which is incremented whenever some major new
>bug is fixed.  When Asterisk starts up (and periodically, maybe once per
>day), it sends a packet with the version number to a server at Digium,
>along with a message level (INFO,MINOR,MAJOR,CRITICAL) and the Digium
>server replies (if it receives the packet, if not, it might get sent again
>in a day) with any INFO, MINOR, MAJOR, or CRITICAL messages which are
>associated with that version of the code.  In this way, an asterisk
>administrator could easily see if there were any major issues, critical
>security updates, etc, that his system might need to be updated for.
>
>Now, of course, any time you put a "call home" feature in, there are
>people who will be concerned about privacy.  Clearly it will be able to be
>disabled, but I want to run my idea about deployment by everyone here and
>see if you guys had some ideas.  The idea would be that *new* installs
>("make samples") would have the feature turned on for MAJOR level by
>default, and that any existing install (e.g. /etc/asterisk/sip.conf
>exists, but not /etc/asterisk/motv.conf) would have the file created at
>the next "make install" based upon prompting the installer.
>
>Any feedback on:
>
>a) The idea itself -- is it a good one or is it stupid?
>
>b) The way to make it deployed without sneaking a "call home" in on
>anybody that doesn't want it?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mark
>
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